Well as you might have noticed my video is okay but could definitely be of much better quality. But hey it's not too bad. So definitely you don't need an expensive camera to video them. Because the camera I used is rather simple, I had to have the camera really close to the feeder for the closeup video. So close that it took a few minutes for the birds to check it out to make sure it was safe before going back to feeding. Now of course it would be great if everybody could afford the best in cameras but not all of us including me can afford those. So if you want a great and simple to use and inexpensive camera here is the exact camera that I used to film my video.